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Napoleon Area School Dis­trict vot­ers Tues­day turned down a 1/2 per­cent earned income tax by a 53% major­ity. The district’s deficit spend­ing in fis­cal 2012 is pro­jected to increase each year through fis­cal year 2017. That’s when pro­jec­tions call for the dis­trict to go broke. The tax, had it been …

There was only one issue fac­ing some Put­nam County vot­ers on Tues­day, and those vot­ers nar­rowly turned down levies and a 0.5-mill, 30-year facil­i­ties bond for the Apollo Career Cen­ter Joint Voca­tional School Dis­trict. Of 286 vot­ers in five precincts, 144 voted against the issue… 142 voted for it.

Some tax issues were approved Tues­day in Ful­ton County. The 0.7-mill, five-year renewal for the oper­a­tions of the county’s 911 sys­tem passed by an unof­fi­cial mar­gin of 2,189–713, while the 0.5-mill, 10-year renewal for the county health dis­trict also passed, 1,957–931. Only 2,935 peo­ple cast bal­lots out of the 29,336 …

In Henry County… • The replace­ment of a tax for the pur­pose of The Henry County Board of Devel­op­men­tal Dis­abil­i­ties was approved by vot­ers by a 54.6% mar­gin. • An annual income tax of one half of one per­cent (0.5%) on the earned income of indi­vid­u­als resid­ing in the Napoleon …

A Defi­ance man has been arrested in con­nec­tion with sev­eral bur­glar­ies. 18 year old Gary Blanken­ship Jr was picked up by the Defi­ance Police Depart­ment on a charge of bur­glary Blanken­ship had an ini­tial hear­ing Mon­day in Defi­ance Munic­i­pal Court. His case was con­tin­ued until today. Bond was set at …

Pet­tisville will ded­i­cate their new 750 kW Aero­nau­tica wind tur­bine on Wednes­day at 10:30 AM. The brief 20 minute cer­e­mony will be held (weather per­mit­ting) on the park­ing lot to the west of the tur­bine. The cer­e­mony will include com­ments from sev­eral indi­vid­u­als, pre­sen­ta­tion of a five year com­mit­ment by …

They sure got the lead out! On Sun­day, The Williams County Con­ser­va­tion League fin­ished a lead recla­ma­tion project. In all, they removed over 200,000 pounds of accu­mu­lated lead from the prop­erty. The lead came from the leagues rifle, pis­tol, skeet and trap shoot­ing ranges and had been build­ing up for …

At a spe­cial meet­ing held Mon­day, Cen­tral Local Schools hired the district’s next super­in­ten­dent. Vicki Brunn will take over the posi­tion, effec­tive Aug. 1. Brunn accepted to posi­tion in a con­fer­ence call, accord­ing to pub­lished reports in the Bryan Times. Brunn will take over for pre­vi­ous Super­in­ten­dent David Bagley who …

Edger­ton Vil­lage Coun­cil hired a new fis­cal offi­cer and made changes per­tain­ing to trash pick-up at Monday’s meet­ing. The Bryan Times reports that Coun­cil approved the hire of William Blakely as fis­cal offi­cer for the vil­lage. Blakely grad­u­ated from Edger­ton High School in 2000, received his degree from DeVry Uni­ver­sity, …

Dr. Mar­cia Sloan Latta will be the fea­tured speaker dur­ing North­west State Com­mu­nity College’s forty-third com­mence­ment cer­e­mony on Sat­ur­day, May 11. A native of Williams County, Latta began her career as a con­gres­sional aide and then did vol­un­teer work in Costa Rica before begin­ning her career in the field of …